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"Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships"--Provided by publisher.

At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.

"Selfie St. Clair is the most popular, glamorous eight grader in the history of James A. Garfield Middle School. Everyon's sure she'll go to prom with a teen TV star or even a minor prince. But Selfie has a terrible secret: No one has asked her. too embarrassed to tell her "cool" friends, she turns to the most unlikely dating coach ever: sixth-grader Becca Birnbaum, who's never had a date in her life. But some people think prom fever is out of control. In fact, Becca's closest pals are planning an anti-prom! Now she's torn between her besties and her new superstar friend, not to mention an impossible crush of her own"--Dust jacket.

"A black, underprivileged misfit from a wealthy, prom-obsessed midwestern community carefully plans to attend a prestigious medical college before the unexpected loss of her financial aid forces her to compete for her schools prom-queen scholarship"--Provided by publisher.

Gay teenager Charlie is asked to join the queer prom committee, and he does, seeing it as a way to get closer to new gay guy Andre and maybe ask him to prom. However, the rich Chad is also competing for Andre. Charlie and his friend Luis come up with a plan to pretend to be Andre's secret admirer, then at the last moment Charlie will reveal himself in a spectacular "promposal.".

"JJ is taking his best friend Lucy to the senior prom, but on the way there a near car crash suddenly points him in the direction of a possible new romance, and when he finally gets to the prom he finds that Lucy has been taken to the hospital and never wants to see him again; but when he wakes up the next morning he finds that it is prom day again--and what seemed like a second chance quickly turns into an endless loop of disasters with no obvious way to break the cycle and fix his relationship"--Provided by publisher.

"Seventeen-year-old Emma Nolan wants only one thing before she graduates: to dance with her girlfriend at the senior prom. But in her small town of Edgewater, Indiana, that's like asking for the moon"--Provided by publisher.

"Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school, after all, her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died; instead she has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine--but when that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to her school's scholarship for prom king and queen, which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships"--Provided by publisher.

Nolan Grant is content to get through his junior year without dating, but his older sister, Daphne, won't rest until he has a date to prom. But when his note to his intended target is intercepted by Bern, a guy who used to bully him, Nolan finds himself in an unlikely relationship that begins as fake-dating but turns into something more.

Presents first-hand accounts of the happenings in the senior class of Pennsbury High School, whose prom was considered by some to be one of "America's best legacies" and includes everyday teenagers' odd, funny, and sentimental stories.